Re: Improve MMO Game Performance

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>
Cc: Arvind Singh *EXTERN* <arvindps(at)hotmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Improve MMO Game Performance
Date: 2012-10-18 14:24:00
Message-ID: 20121018142359.GC1982@alvh.no-ip.org
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Albe Laurenz wrote:
> Arvind Singh wrote:
> > Are there any particular settings or methods available to improve Just
> insert_table operations
>
> The obvious ones:
> - Wrap several of them in a transaction.
> - Increase checkpoint_segments.
> - Set fsync=off and hope you don't crash.

I think it would work to set asynchronous_commit=off for the
transactions that insert moves. That way, the fsync flushes happen in
the background and are batched. Raising wal_buffers is probably a good
idea, and keep an eye on how the walwriter is doing.

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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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